I'm you're at all familiar with my life, you know that I have a huge depression problem. I can't shut up about it! It's hard to be happy when you've set yourself up for failure. One way I attempt to feel better is by communicating with others and sharing my feelings and problems. Here are a few effective ways in which they might actually help me to ( Read more... )

I have created a brand new tag just for Mormonism! There are more entries on the topic than I had thought.

mormonism
Entry focuses on the LDS church.

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I spend a great deal of time on the internet, and it's possible that it's a negative thing and that I am addicted. All I need to do is compare my life before the internet with my life now: Before the internet, I had no real-life friends, I hated physical activity, and I lived in a world of imagination. Now, I have one or two real life friends I've ( Read more... )

New quotes in bold.

"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
Adolf Hitler

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I've written before about how much cognitive dissonance it must take to be a black Mormon (more than it takes to be a regular Mormon even), but it turns out that even though many of the earlier leaders of the church said things along the line of "the negro can kiss my white ass" and prevented them from entering the priesthood before 1978, it's all ( Read more... )

Santa is already half-done with his Santaic trek across the world. Fast bastard. Track his progress here. For some reason, he has passed through Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, UAE, and Oman, not respecting cultural differences. That symbol of Western values is sure to get shot down by militant Islamists ( Read more... )

Misery Activity: Look at yourself in the mirror and count the imperfections.

Joy Activity: Go to a populated place and for everyone you see, no matter what their age, gender, race, body mass, disability, or dress, find at least one beautiful or fascinating thing about them.

I really don't know what annoys me more: self-loathing celibate homosexual Christians, or proud homosexual Christians who've deluded themselves into thinking Christianity is a great, tolerant religion. I frankly think that feminists, homosexuals, blacks, and Asians who identify as Christian are like a Jew who joins the Nazi party with the excuse ( Read more... )

Jack Chick has released a new comic starring vampires who worship Satan:


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Alright, I got my last payment from ChaCha and I'm pretty sure I'm done with them. Besides their policy changes, I'm getting sick of it ( Read more... )